... An error the press is often spoken of; but an error the typography is what is meant; and of the extraordinary blunders sometimes made by compositors, despite all trie care that taken in the plain manuscript, or j«equent marks by the corrector, we had two specimens uesdny. In one of the instances the writer had extolled one of our most opulent mercantile men : one who whether in the town, as at ...

... T tCE FACTORY BILL. | al lll . -, , v -, , -I contested Factory Bill is about to undergo al in the Upper House; we presume iti will be easy as compared with the fierce has surmounted in the House of Com- Worthy of remark, that the. most .bitter this wise and wholesome measure have 'n Liberals, and of that class commonly olitical Economists. The operative, on A has had an excellent opportunity ...

... |P1EOM¶'OTIOiS and APPOINTMEiTIS. a 7- - -AtmT aidly PROMOTION. ?? the Lievtknaent-F. Beauchamp Seymour, flag Lieutenant to ited, Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, to be acting the Commander of the Collingwsood. Mr. Seymour the has been five years absent from England, serving in The China and the Pacific. der- APPOINTMENTS. airal C'aptain-W. H. Hall, to Dragon. C'Ominander-C. J. Balfour, to ...

... SHAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY AND Robjt I 0~~~ * The annual festivities in celebration of the Birth-day of the hsad of Avon took plane in his native town en the 24th elI, baq there was little pnblic demonstration. Says a peal of hllo ,fr the tower above tepoet's lost resting-plane, and a bannter q, reol ahovo the Shakspere-holl. everything wan quiet adnpe The meeting of the members of the Shaokoperian ...

... SUNDERLAI'D POLICE. Saftisday, Mop ?? Joseph Brown, ?? and R. Carr,Esq'.-James Carter, coaster of the ehip leamc of this port, was summoned for not delivering to Francis Hazlorsan, a seamen, his reghter ticket on the eoueple- tion of the voyage. Delfudant alleged that the coII- plainlant having left the ressel at Peterheatd, bafore the termination of his service, the register ticket was ...

... a In the latter period of last week, a young man r named John Bourne, respectably attired, took up his n i- residence at Mr John Cox's, the Ord Arms Inn. r . Scotswood-road, Newcastle, for the ostensible pur. t , pose of being trained by Ifenry Clasper to row a s skiff match at Manchester, and Mr Cox, in order to ] r nake him comfortable, gave up his own sleeping u o apartment, in which was a ...

... MIM8OLLA MOUS NEWS. * Dissuw~ras.-At se. Bees there are, it is stated, about thirty ex-dissenting preachers, all studying for the church ministry. BLACK SAaLORs.-Some curiosity has been excited at Cork, by the arrival, from New Orleans, of a ship wholly Manned by blacks. Tan LAST ROYAL MARRlAGE..-All attempts to effect a reconciliation between the King and Queen of Spain have been unsuccessful ...

... CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ AND ST. JEAN D'ULLOA. We have received copy of the New Yorh Journal Commerce of the ICth ult., which was furnished to our correspondent at Plymouth by a pilot, who obtained it from an American packet bound to Havre. The following extracts from the Journal of Commerce leave no doubt as to the capture of Vera Cruz and the Castle of St. Jean d'Ulloa by the American force ...

... The Manchester journalists have no capacity for fine writing. They seem to think that they have no other use for worils than to express their thoughts. They call a spade a spaile. The Guardian, having occasion to use the word twice may, to avoid repetition of the same term, call it, on the second occurrence, horticultural instrument, and the Courier, in naming it, may occasionally give a line ...

... SIR,—My attention havim; been directed to a paragraph in your journal 01 Saturday last, therein an attempt has been made by seme one (evidently not 01 the craft), to lower me in the es- timation of the public, Lut with what views 1 am at a loss to conceive, I will thank you, as an act of justice to myself, to publish the following copy of a letter received from the Grand Lodge, leaving your ...

... I The local papers continue to report the condition of the ev crops. From Woreestershire we learn that the wheat an plant has not been injured, nor has any cereal suffered from th the cold weather, except some precocious barley. The I promise of hlossom in the orchards is great, with every n likelihood of being fulfilled. SOUTH HAMSr.-At last, we (Western Flying Post) of may speak of the ...

... IHALTH OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT. (From the Dublin Freeman of Monday) Sundav Morning, Twelve o'clock. At half-past nine to.day the subjoined bulletin was issued: May 2.-His Excellency has passed anjother good night, and feels somewhat better this morning. P. CRAMPTON. We are glad to perceive by tile following that, up to a late hour last night, his Excellency was not worse, but was rather in ...